Shirt neckband



Feb. 17, 1942. E. B. SULLIVAN SHIRT NEGKBAND Filed April 24, 1939INVENTOR. EDMUND B. SULLIVAN ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 SHIRT NECKBANDEdmund B. Sullivan, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Application April 24, 1939, Serial No. 269,614

1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to outer shirts having neckbandsprovided with pockets for the insertion of collar buttons, but morespecifically to means for separating the walls of the pocket of theneckband after same have been starched together following laundering,whereby the base of a collar button may be inserted within the saidpocket.

The main object of the invention resides in the provision of a neck bandhaving a pocket formed therein to house the base of a collar button, thesaid pocket having a tab member secured intermediate the width of thepocket whereby the outer wall may be separated from the inner wall forinsertion of said collar button.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a neckbandhaving a pocket formed therefrom intermediate the width of which a tabmember is secured to the inner surface of the outer wall by means oflines of stitching whereby the pocket member walls are easily of buttonhole I3 and forming the inner and outer walls l4 and I5. Another line ofstitching I6 is provided between the lower edge of inner wall l4situated between the spaced transverse separated after having beensecured together by starch in the laundering process.

These objects and other incidental ends and advantages of the inventionwill hereinafter appear in the progress of the disclosure and as pointedout in the appended claim.

Accompanying this specification is a drawing showing a preferred form ofthe invention wherein corresponding reference characters designatecorresponding parts throughout the views and wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of a shirt showing a tab member attachedto the neckband.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of Figure 1 along the plane 2-2 thereof.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 except that the pocket member isshown opened.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of the neckband of a shirt not providedwith a tab member.

In accordance with the invention and a preferred embodiment shown in theaccompanying drawing, numeral l0 indicates a shirt having a neckbandgenerally designated by numeral Customary button holes I 2 and I3 areprovided on the neckband The neckband II is preferably comprised ofinner and outer walls l4 and I5, and as shown in the drawing is formedby folding the neckband material over on itself, the fold constitutingthe upper edges of the neckband. The lower edges of walls I4 and I5 aresecured to the shirt edge ID by means of a line of stitching l6 whichlatter is interrupted between two spaced and transverse lines ofstitching H and I8 laterally lines of stitching l1 and IB and the shirtedge Ill.

Thus, a channel I9 is formed between the walls l4 and I5 of the neckbandexcept for that portion between lines of stitching H and l8 whichportion forms a pocket 20 with the lower edge of wall portion I5 free.

A tab member 2| is adapted to be secured within pocket 20, lateral edgesofthe said tab member 2| being disposed preferably inwardly of the linesof stitching I1 and 18 whereby it becomes possible to secure the saidtab member to the outer wall l5 by distending the latter from the innerwall. Thus, the tab member 2| is preferably secured to outer wall l5 ofthe pocket by lateral lines of stitching 22 and 23 and also, if desired,by an upper line of stitching 24 as shown in Figure 3. Theaforementioned button hole I3 is adapted to register with a corresponding button hole 25 in the tab member 2| whereby the base of acollar button 26 may be used against the outer surface of inner wall l4and projected through hole 25 of tab 2| and hole l3 in the outer wall l5of the pocket member. The tab 2| preferably projects below the base ofneckband I as shown in Figure 1. By pulling on the projecting portion oftab 2|, it is easily seen how the outer wall l5 of pocket 2|! isseparated from the inner wall l4. This separation is made more easy bothfrom the standpoint of manufacture as has been above mentioned and fromthe standpoint of performance by making the width of tab 2| narrowerthan the width of the pocket 20.

In Figure 4, a neckband is shown affixed to a shirt l0" wherein achannel I9 is formed between inner and outer walls l4 and I5, the saidneckband not being provided with a tab member. Such a neckband mayeasily be converted into a neckband shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 byforming a pocket therein by the expedient of providing two spacedtransverse lines of stitching similar to lines of stitching l1 and l8and securing to the outer wall a fabric piece, thus forming a tab memberin accordance with the rior description.

I wish it distinctly understood that the tab member as applied to apocket in the rear of the neckband, may also be applied to a pocket'atthe front of the neckband to accommodate a front collar button.

I wish it understood that minor changes and ing provided with spacedtransverse lines of stitching joining the walls together to form apocket, the outer wall of said pocket being provided with a. buttonhole, a tab member having a button hole within the said pocket toregister with the button hole of the outer wall of the pocket, the tabmember being secured to the outer wall of the pocket at least at thelateral edges thereof and across the height thereof.

EDMUND B. SULLIVAN.

